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Last updated 4/7/2015

Set tabbing order in Page Properties

1 If you are in the form editing mode, click the cross button towards the right in the toolbar to exit the mode.

2 Click the Page Thumbnails button or choose View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes >Page Thumbnails to open

the Page Thumbnails panel.

3 Select one or more page icons, and choose Page Properties in the Options menu of the Page Thumbnails panel. You

can also righ-click and then choose Page Properties.

4 Select a Tab Order option:

Use Row Order Tabs from the upper-left field, moving first left to right and then down, one row at a time.

Use Column Order Tabs from the upper-left field, moving first from top to bottom and then across from left to right,

one column at a time.

Use Document Structure For forms with tagged fields, follows the order set up in the tagging.

Unspecified Uses the existing sequence.

5 Click OK.

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About form field properties

How a form field behaves is determined by settings in the Properties dialog box for that individual field. You can set

properties that apply formatting, determine how the form field information relates to other form fields, impose

limitations on what the user can enter in the form field, trigger custom scripts, and so on.

You can set various properties for an Acrobat DC form field, depending on the form field type. The properties for each

type of form field are selected on a series of tabs. When you change a property, it is applied as soon as you select another

property or press Enter.

All types of form fields have a General tab and an Actions tab. Other tabs appear only in specific types of form fields.

The Options tab appears for most form field types but the options available are unique to each type of form field.

Two items are available on every tab. If you select one on any tab, a check mark will appear, and the option will be

checked on all tabs. These are:

Locked

When selected, prevents any further changes to any form field properties.

Closes the form field Properties dialog box. If you are changing the properties of multiple fields, you can leave the

Properties dialog box open. Click each field to change its properties.